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- 26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
with J.P. Morgan. A member of the firm’s operating committee, she has run the Asset Management division, a global leader in investment management and private banking, since 2009. Her group’s record-setting performance is unheard of in...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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A Zest to Invest
"During the first five years our performance was strong but somewhat volatile," says Kingdon. "We were just a tiny firm and didn't have the analytical backup and the infrastructure we have now. "By 1988, he decided to abandon the risky...
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Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2019
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Remix
Colleen Ammerman, director of the Gender Initiative at HBS. And yet it hasn’t been thoroughly studied in the context of organizational behavior and social psychology. But with more scholars investigating the View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
unanimous: All-day breakfast. In the end, all-day breakfast rolled out nationwide in October 2015, less than a year after Cunningham arrived. In this episode of Skydeck, I talked to Cunningham about how she managed rapid organizational...
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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an extraordinary demand for the handful of available places each...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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A United Front
Sustaining peak performance over not just years but decades may be the single most difficult challenge for executives, which makes Sir Alex Ferguson's 26-year run as manager of England's legendary Manchester United soccer club so...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes
explores these differences in a working paper titled "Limits to Globalization: Organizational Homogeneity and Diversity in the Semiconductor Industry." Extensive interviews with managers at nine major firms (four American and five...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty
capital markets and firms’ social, environmental, and governance performance. Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, also had ties to HBS before joining the faculty. After earning her doctorate in...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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New Releases
American and European MNCs. Writing for managers who seek to boost firm performance and for academics interested in organizational design, the authors detail how MNCs can fully tap the value creation...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2006
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Rowing Upstream
not-so-pretty picture of a frustrating and baffling decline in performance by the varsity boat at the United States Military Academy. Polzer, whose teaching and research focus on organizational behavior,...
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- 05 Jul 2011
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The Business of Champions
triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and failure are on the scoreboard for all to see....
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- 01 Sep 2004
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HBS Clubs and Associations
concepts to improve organizational effectiveness. Richardson attended a more targeted program titled Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations, which is designed to boost...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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New Releases
an eight-step process to help firms achieve the lasting organizational transformations essential for success in the coming decades. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) After years...
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- 25 Nov 2021
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An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization
operating an arts nonprofit in a competitive environment to ensure its future growth and organizational health. Zvulun, the subject of an HBS case by Tushman, cites Tushman’s new book, Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
world’s top corporations. Why do some of these organizations enjoy generations of success while so many others flounder? “The answer,” say Lorsch and Tierney, “lies in the ability to develop and motivate star talent, while explicitly aligning individual needs with the...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
in organizational success and personal growth. He also provides a 28-day program for mastering innovation’s key steps: finding insight, generating ideas, building businesses, and strengthening innovation prowess in the workforce and...
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Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
it seems that if you work hard and keep your nose clean, they'll get rid of your division." Stevenson believes that many of the remedies prescribed today for enhancing competitiveness - organizational innovations such as restructuring,...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
influence an organization can have on social factors beyond its boundaries." Most research on organizational performance focuses on cause-and-effect situations that assume degrees of linearity and control...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
long-standing commitment to workforce diversity. As far back as 1914, IBM founder Thomas Watson made "respect for the individual" one of the three basic tenets of the company (the other two called for excellence in performance and...
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Garry Emmons